Burial ceremony honours mystery victim of crashed nuclear bomber - Calgary Herald
27 May 2012, 5:35 pm
Those DNA tests proved inconclusive, but more advanced experiments conducted recently identified Pollard as the man whose boot and parachute were pulled from B.C.’s hecate Strait in 1952. “I feel such joy that I am being given my father ...

'Black magic' of ancient curse revealed after Roman tablet found hidden in museum - Daily Mail
25 May 2012, 4:51 am
The star is almost unique - but other features such as the snakes make an identification with the Goddess hecate tempting. hecate - the witch-goddess - is often invoked in curse tablets. 'While it is tempting to identify this figure with this deity ...

Coast oil spill will e 'catastrophic' - Calgary Herald
24 May 2012, 5:17 pm
"It's not a question of if but when, and when is not 15,000 years." Falconer showed slides of 26metre-high waves in March in hecate Straight, along with shipping disasters and the after-effects of spills near ship terminals and on coastlines around the globe.

B.C. fishermen stranded for days on remote island - Toronto Star
24 May 2012, 4:55 pm
Martynuik and his fishing companions — brother Brian and friend Jesse Brillon — got into their life raft just in time to the see their vessel go down in the hecate Strait off the coast of northern B.C. After being lost at sea for several hours ...

French surfers go with the flow during flat spell - Torquay Herald Express
24 May 2012, 1:11 am
By Sunday the swell had died again but perfect sailing weather prevailed and a visit to Clovelly aboard hecate, North Devon's new surf charter boat, rounded off the trip. Lorraine Fontaine, of UJAP Quimper, said: "The kids thoroughly enjoyed themselves ...

A Guinea Pig’s Night at the Theater - New York Times
23 May 2012, 4:35 pm
The woman — who I later learned is hecate, the lead witch in “Sleep No More” — then entered a nightclub where other audience members and I watched her perform a garish lip-sync of “Is That All There Is?” But when hecate left this ...

Fishermen rescued after 10 days stranded on B.C. island - Calgary Sun
18 May 2012, 7:47 pm
About 10 a.m. they had the good fortune of being spotted by a passing sailing vessel in the hecate Strait. The group were on a fishing trip when their boat, the Pacific Siren, suddenly capsized last Tuesday, leaving them in a life raft about 112 km south ...

3 shipwrecked fishermen lived on clams, seaweed for 10 days - kpax
18 May 2012, 7:26 pm
The three men boarded a life raft and paddled eight miles to Banks Island, located off central British Columbia in the hecate Strait, a fishing ground for salmon and halibut, the navy said. While on the island, they used their raft as a shelter ...

Three rescued after 10 days on remote island in hecate Strait - The Vancouver Sun
17 May 2012, 6:58 pm
A sailor in his 70s was looking for tsunami debris south of Prince Rupert when he spotted three fishermen who’d been stranded on a remote island for 10 days after their fishing vessel capsized and sank. The men had taken to their liferaft and paddled ...

Canadians travel great distances to return tsunami bike to Japanese owner - Winnipeg Free Press
6 May 2012, 8:09 pm
Since it was pulled from a remote beach on Haida Gwaii, volunteers have looked after the bike every step of the way — ferrying it across hecate Strait and then driving it about 1,600 kilometres from the northwestern, B.C. city of Prince Rupert ...